[gentoo-amd64] FGLRX: Option SwapScreens in xorg.conf not working

[Sebastian Beßler]

Hello,

I have a ATI Radeon HD3650 setup as DualHead (two seperate Screens :0.0
and :0.1) with my main-monitor on vga and my TV on HDMI. This worked
with the fglrx-driver and Option Swap-Screens on in the Drivers-Section
in xorg.conf flawless until I tried the radeonhd-driver.

For that I moved my xorg.conf to a save place and made a totaly new from
scratch.

Because of my failure to create a DualHead-Setup with radeonhd (all I
get is a crappy BigScreen with windows maximising to both monitors) I
switched back to fglrx.

For that I copied the saved xorg.conf back and rebooted.

But now the SwapScreens option in xorg.conf is ignored.
The log shows (**) fglrx(0): Option "SwapScreens" "on" but the screens
are wrong.

Commenting out or setting it to off doesn't work either.

The Option is needed as digital output is preferred over analog vga so
that my TV is set as primary screen. As my monitor is connected to
analog vga (with an adapter as the card only has 2 DVI) that is totaly
unacceptable.

I tried every version of the fglrx-driver (inclusive 9.6 today) that is
in portage.

I tried using aticonfig --initial --swap-screens=on so that
/etc/ati/amdpcsdb gets updated, but without any luck.

Now I am out of ideas.

If anybody has a working DualHead with to seperated screens (:0.0 and
:0.1) with radeonhd (the normal radeon doesn't work as it can't use
HDMI) equal if statically in xorg.conf or dynamically with xrandr that
would be cool too.

I take every solution as long as I don't need to buy a new monitor and
have to seperated screens.

Greetings

Sebastian Beßler

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My xorg.conf:

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "aticonfig Layout"
	Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
	Screen         "aticonfig-Screen[0]-1" RightOf "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
	Option	    "DontZap" "off"
	Option	    "Xinerama" "off"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
	Option	    "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
	Option	    "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
	Option	    "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-1"
	Option	    "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
	Option	    "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
	Option	    "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
	Driver      "fglrx"
	Option	    "SwapScreens" "on"
	BusID       "PCI:2:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-1"
	Driver      "fglrx"
	BusID       "PCI:2:0:0"
	Screen      1
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
	Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
	Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1440x900" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-1"
	Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-1"
	Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-1"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1280x720"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
	Group        "video"
	Mode         0666
EndSection

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